Captive Nation
Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
Dan Berger
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 11/2014
Pages: 424
Subject: Social Science, Law
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469618258
DESCRIPTION
The prison shaped the rise and spread of black activism, from civil rights demonstrators willfully risking arrests to the many current and former prisoners that built or joined organizations such as the Black Panther Party. Grounded in extensive research, Berger engagingly demonstrates that such organizing made prison walls porous and influenced generations of activists that followed.